Portrait of a Coral Reef.(Brief Article)

Photographic innovation allows wide-view image

Coral reefs that grow to form a large wall have always been magnets for scuba divers. Making wide-view images of those reefs, such as renowned Bloody Bay Wall off Little Cayman Island in the British West Indies, has been a challenge for professional photographers. At even moderate depths in good-quality water, clarity fades beyond a few feet using traditional underwater lights. "Also, most of the color spectrum except blues and greens is absorbed," says San Diego photographer Jim Hellemn, who eventually solved the ...

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